Our Union: It must be preserved. ” – Andrew Jackson , President Jackson’s toast at a Jefferson Day dinner, April 13, 1830. This great Republic began as 13 States signed and ratified a new US Constitution. We currently have grown to 50 States, 5 Federal territories, and 1 Federal district. In all this time there have been times of turbulence and strife because people are | Read More »

Having attended two Tea Parties in D.C., and having watched the Restoring Honor rally on TV, I was anxious to compare how a rally staged by the Left in the same venue would compare. I drove in from Maryland, and spent from noon till 1:30PM observing the crowd. Based on what I saw, I got the feeling that the Left is trying to adapt their message to meet a | Read More »

Incumbent Democrats are desperate — increasingly aware the public’s taste for their brand of change has waned. Some, in generally conservative districts and states, are reaching for the mantle of the moderate; others, like those in reliably Democratic areas, have not yet begun backsliding on the president on the issues of health care reform and spending. But all — no matter how comfortable their lead | Read More »

Incumbent Democrats are desperate — increasingly aware the public’s taste for their brand of change has waned. Some, in generally conservative districts and states, are reaching for the mantle of the moderate; others, like those in reliably Democratic areas, have not yet begun backsliding on the president on the issues of health care reform and spending. But all — no matter how comfortable their lead | Read More »

Hey Red Staters! A quick hello here from Corie Whalen. Some of you may know me if you followed the American Liberty Tour via Caleb Howe’s fantastic coverage chock full of his signature wit both here at Red State and at the American Liberty Tour site via his expertly crafted flip cam updates and blogs while we were out on the road. I was the nerd who drew from the wisdom of our | Read More »

As Rep. Clyburn, the 3rd ranking House Democrat, recently put it ‘There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do.’ Sadly, the modus operandi of leadership in Washington today is to shove through Congress whatever legislation they can get away with nearly complete disregard to the responsibilities chartered in our country’s founding | Read More »

but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" – Job 38:11 (KJV) Below is a great sign from the D.C. Tea Party over the weekend. The sign reads "Get out of my life" with Job 38:11, a reference to the Bible passage above, at the bottom. Well said, Patriot! God help us! -Crippy

Current TEApeat: Taxpayer March on DC, via the Tea Party Bus (Tea Party Express), tour heads toward DC for the 9/12 event. While we touched on this in several TEApeat related Diaries when the Tea Parties were first revving up I wanted to revisit and help us all to get caught up on the latest clever posters in the Slogan War and/or to share other | Read More »

As school starts this week for students across the country, my heart goes out to the 216 students who had their offers of participating in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program revoked last spring by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. 1,700 students have benefited from the program over the years. These 216 students were accepted into the program earlier this year only to find later that | Read More »

For me, the Torch of Liberty shines brighter than all the neon on Time Square. That is unnatural light, made by Madison Avenue marketeers. But where the glow of that light no longer reaches is to Wall Street. They built up the wall to block out all light. But it can still shine down on them from above. And in the umbra, lies our Nation’s | Read More »

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York has been a self-styled education mayor. He’s made all sorts of proposals and tried several different angles — some good some not so good — to improve the education of the kids of New York. He has, though, been a proponent of school choice and this advocacy looks to be a success, at least for the kids of Harlem’s | Read More »

Hello All, I wasn’t going to write about “Washington D.C.’s Vote” but the more I read all the comments over at “Hot Air “ the more I realized that everyone is missing the point. I lived around D.C. pretty much from birth until I was 31 either in MD or VA. I worked in on around D.C. for over 18 years. So I am well | Read More »

It would appear that the following Posters need to be put up all over Washington DC to remind Democrats that “Loose Lips Can Cost Lives” and while the old saying used to also have a “Loose Lips Sink Ships” variety – today it is “Loose Lips Will Ground Predators.” And to think these fools think it will be fine-and-dandy to have Trials for Terrorists in | Read More »

Eric Holder’s bio Please read… Obama’s VP Vetter Eric Holder Clueless On Elian Gonzalez Eric Holder’s part in getting Mark Rich a pardonand the FALN. More of the old Clinton team comming back to be take care of business the Clinton way! I hope not!

by Ima Teule of the New York Times News Service Arthur Daniels Midland (ADM) has announced plans to build a mammoth fertilizer refining plant just outside of Washington, DC, to take advantage of the enormous volume of BS coming out of the nation’s capital.